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TRENTON — A Ewing man who left his pump-action shotgun in plain view on the back seat of a red Camaro was tracked down and arrested in Trenton early Sunday, city police said.

Officers went to Commerce and North Stockton streets just before 4 a.m. on a report of an armed man with a red Camaro, Lt. Steve Varn said. They spotted Lawrence Priester, 31, who fit the descripton of the man, walking on the street and detained him, Varn said.

They found a red Camaro parked in the area and the keys on Priester, and saw the Remington shotgun in the back seat, Varn said.

The officers seized the gun and $1,886 cash that was also in the car, police said. Priester was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and certain persons not to possess a weapon.

Police are not certain why Priester was armed and in the area, Varn said.